Upcoming events
Church Maintenance Workshop for St Albans Parishes
How to organise maintenance by contractors and the safe cleaning of your church
Saturday 24 November, 2018 – St Stephen’s Church, Watling Street, St Albans, AL1 2PT
Regular checking and maintenance is key to caring for your church building. No, little or poor maintenance leads to unnecessary damage and high costs – but where do you start and what should you do?
Routine maintenance and inspection by contractors is essential in addition to that done by parish volunteers. This workshop will focus on the services you need from contractors and specialist firms and how you should go about getting them. It will also cover the safe cleaning of your church and its contents.
Click here for full information and to book your place.
Past events – programmes and presentations
Training for churchwardens 2018
Sessions for new (and some continuing) churchwardens took place in June, July and September for the St Albans, Bedford and Hertford Archdeaconries.
Presentations given by the DAC Pastoral and Advisory Secretary and Historic Church Buildings Support Officer – some of which overlap – are here:
Caring for and changing your church building – the DAC
Caring for your church and working with your architect
Helping your church and making a big noise
QI reports, follow-up and help
Lynne Ingham, Church Insurance Consultant at Ecclesiastical Insurance, provided an introduction to Insurance and Risk Management, which covered the following areas: Background to Ecclesiastical; Valuations; Insurance cover; Advice & Guidance; and Claims. Further information on these topics can be found on the Ecclesiastical website, Church Matters, by following this link .
Architect Mike Dales’ presentation to Bedford Archdeaconry churchwardens is not included because the picture slides were a prompt to his talk and are not helpful on their own.
Church Maintenance Workshop for St Albans Parishes
Regular maintenance and how parishes and volunteers should go about it
14 April 2018 – St Andrews Church, Kimbolton Road, Bedford MK40 2PF
Programme and presentations by James Innerdale (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) – Introduction, Maintenance, Managing Maintenance and Baseline Survey and Maintenance Plans
For information on SPAB’s Faith in Maintenance and Maintenance Co-operatives Project click here
Church architects and surveyors – summer workshop
30 June 2017 – St Andrew’s Centre, St Andrew’s Street, Hertford SG14 1HZ
Tackling Church Repairs – Parish Workshop
A workshop for parishes on organising and funding church repair projects
25 March 2017 – Linslade Community Hall, St Barnabas Church, Waterloo Road, Linslade LU7 2NR
Programme, presentations and other useful information
Feature on SeeRound Online (April 17 Page 4)
